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Women and Crime A Text/Reader

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ISBN-10: 1412987504

ISBN-13: 9781412987509

Edition: 2012

Authors: Stacy L. Mallicoat

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List price: $89.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/5/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 664
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Stacy L. Mallicoat is a professor of criminal justice in the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice at California State University, Fullerton. She earned her BA in Legal Studies and Sociology, with a concentration in Crime and Deviance from Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA) in 1997 and received her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Sociology in 2003. Her primary research interests include feminist criminology and public opinion on the death penalty. She is the author of several books, including Women and Crime: The Essentials, Criminal Justice Policy , and California's Criminal Justice System . Her work also appears in a number of journals such as Feminist…    

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Women and Crime: An Introduction
Theories on Victimization and Offending
How to Read a Research Article
Readings:
The Gendered Nature of Risk Factors for Delinquency
Patriarchy, Crime, and Justice: Feminist Criminology in an Era of Backlash
College Students' Crime-Related Fears on Campus: Are Fear-Provoking Cues Gendered?
Women and Victimization: Rape and Sexual Assault
Readings:
Beyond Rape: The Pervasiveness of Sexual Victimization
Prevalence and Effects of Rape Myths in Print Journalism: The Kobe Bryant Case
The Role of the New "Date Rape Drugs" in Attributions About Date Rape
Women and Victimization: Intimate Partner Abuse
Readings:
Interpersonal Violence Against Women: The Role of Men
Silenced Voices and Structured Survival: Battered Women's Help Seeking
Intersections of Immigration and Domestic Violence: Voices of Battered Immigrant Women
Women and Victimization: Stalking and Sexual Harassment
Readings:
Stalking in the Context of Intimate Partner Abuse: In the Victims' Words
Cyberstalking: An Exploratory Study of Students at a Mid-Atlantic University
Everyday Stranger Harassment and Women's Objectification
International Issues for Women and Crime
Readings:
Karo-Kari: a Form of Honour Killing in Pakistan
Life Histories and Survival Strategies Amongst Sexually Trafficked Girls in Nepal
Murder in Ciudad Juarez: a Parable of Women's Struggle for Human Rights
Girls and Juvenile Delinquency
Readings:
At-Risk Girls and Delinquency: Career Pathways
Violent Girls or Relabeled Status Offenders? An Alternative Interpretation of the Data
What a Girl Wants, What a Girl Needs: Findings From a Gender-Specific Focus Group Study
Female Offenders and Their Crimes
Readings:
Locked Up Means Locked Out: Women, Addiction, and Incarceration
Infanticide and Neonaticide: a Review of 40 Years of Research Literature on Incidence and Causes
Understanding the Experiences of Street Level Prostitutes
Girls, Gangs and Violence: Assessing the Evidence
Processing and Sentencing of Female Offenders
Readings:
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Girls' Sentencing in the Juvenile Justice System
Ages of Chivalry, Places of Paternalism: Gender and Criminal Sentencing in Finland
The Impact of Race, Gender, and Age on the Pretrial Decision
Readings:
Women Offenders and the Gendered Effects of Public Policy
Throwaway Moms: Maternal Incarceration and the Criminalization of Female Poverty
Collateral Costs of Imprisonment for Women: Complications of Reintegration
Women and Work in the Criminal Justice System: Police, Courts, and Corrections
Readings:
Survival in an "All Boys Club": Policewomen and Their Fight for Acceptance
Gender and Judicial Decisions: Do Female Judges Decide Cases Differently Than Male Judges?
Gender and Stress: a Comparative Assessment of Sources of Stress Among Correctional Officers
Glossary
Credits and Sources
References
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Author